cheerful - Story 19184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Delicious," Leo mumbled, savoring the last bite of his breakfast burrito. The coffee was perfect, the newspaper offered some light entertainment, and the prospect of a relaxing Saturday stretched before him. He was truly content. He loved his life with Oliver.

The phone on the counter suddenly blared, jolting him from his pleasant reverie. It was Oliver’s, vibrating furiously. He went to answer it, but thought better of it, deciding to let it go to voicemail. After a few seconds, the ringing ceased. A moment later, it started again. Leo slowly walked to the other room.

Emotion: cheerful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.13 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion cheerful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 cheerful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the cheerful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the cheerful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.962
`de`	0.597
`!`	0.590
`excitedly`	0.589
`!".`	0.568

Suppressed:

`S`	-1.213
`L`	-0.693
`ness`	-0.492
`😞`	-0.425
`বারবার`	-0.422